Mass Media, The (Newspaper) - March 27, 1972, Boston, Massachusetts THE MASS MEDIA VOL VI No 20 THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT BOSTON Monday March John SAC SAC Reveals Open Hearing by Sherry Thomas The proposed Student Affairs Committee budget for 19721973 is approximately which when based on the proposed student population of 4700 requests about per student per year The fee is almost double the fee which students were required to pay this year in order registration to be credited Open Hearings During the week of April 1721 open hearings will be held to allow students to comment on the allocation requests as they were submitted to the SAC The schedule for the hearings will be available at the after Spring Following the hearings the SAC will review the allocation requests in light of both students testimony and the results of the SAC student mailing survey The final SAC fee request will be forwarded to the Senate Executive Committee April 28 for Senate meeting scheduled for May 4th Student Salaries Salaries for students are included in the proposed SAC budget for those students who maintain critical and time consuming positions in the university The Senate accepted the notion of student pay at its meeting last Thursday but referred the matter to committee for further investigation The miscellaneous in the SAC budget F s kept for BUDGET Page 8 Changes Needed In Economic Priorities by Paul Tooher Barry Bluestone charged that the 1973 Federal Budget is failing to deal with the problems of unemployment and inflation and will increase the inequality of income distribution within the society Bluestone a member of the Economics Department and the Institute of Human Sciences at Boston College spoke here Tuesday at the invitation of the Economics Department of College II on A Radical Guide to the 1973 Federal Major Changes Speaking from a prepared text which he had previously presented to the Economic Committee of the United States Congress Bluestone contended that the underlying structure of the economy is fundamentally unsound changes in economic priorities are Bluestone claimed that two inherent tendencies within a capitalist economy were the tendency toward an increasingly unequal distribution o income and toward an ever worsening tradeoff between inflation and He further contended that owners of capital have both a psychological and political stake in an unequal distribution of income Private individuals to invest in their own rather than contribute to the economic viability of competing economic groups Working Poor is uneven development where the rich become wealthier and the poor relatively more impoverished It is important to realize that this is not an in the private sector of the American economy but precisely its traditional and As an example of the failure of capitalism Bluestone cited Department of Commerce figures showing that the working poor made up well over half of the poor in the nation He went on to charge that the federal government implicitly reinforces the tendency toward uneven development through its expenditures investment and tax Defense Spending He pointed out that in 1970 federal purchases from the private sector 78 percent of the total budget was for the defense department To a great extent these industries have higher profits and pay higher wages precisely because of government intervention in the Further he stated that the ECONOMY page 2 College II Committee Passes Final Draft Of Its Constitution by Sherry Thomas The Constitution of College II finally approved by a general meeting of the college last Monday after its scheduled meeting for the Ides of March was postponed because of snow The Constitution is ready for the ratification vote this week after months of deliberation George Goodwin Chairman of Politics and Chairman of the College II Executive Committee reminded the assembly of the meetings so long ago and urged that the two request of the Presidents office be adopted The recommend ations were adopted after Part C Article 10 added the following italicized words to read unless disapproved by the Chancellor in confutation with the College Own and the Dean within twenty days oi notification by the Senate of its Committees Formed Dean Walter Rosen addressed the meeting to update the affairs of the college since College Day the first day of the year Committees have been organized to deal with the short term concerns of the college and study groups are being formed to begin working on the long range problems The Executive Committee is chaired by George Goodwin and meets regularly with the Dean and advises him on general policy of the College The Curriculum Committee like the others is un ad hoc committee and is chaired by Richard Landry It is studying recommendations which have been made in regard to the Option Program area concentration majors anc individually designe interdepartmental majors An Elections Committee under the chairmanship of John Schulta is replacing the former Ad Hoc Governance Committee which was chaired by Lorain Larison The Elections Committee wil work in cooperation with the Senates Election Committee if the colleges Constitution is ratified this week Lee Grove will chair committee on Student Affairs will plan and promote extracurricular functions social cultural ant This com mil let will ideally be COLLEGE II 3 Senate Approves Student Salaries As A Principle Option B Deadline Set Hearten of the UMB delegation to Itle National Student labby conferring ine session at Georgetown L 10 Rk Ray Dawe Deryl Dottle Winn and Tom Brady UMB Student Delegation Confers With Congressmen On Aid by Bud Snyder Special to the Mass Media WASHINGTON Meetings with Massachusetts Congressmen Michael Harrington Congressmen Silvio and Senators Edward Brook and Edward Kennedy highlighted an allout student lobby effort by six UMB students for the sending higher education act now before the joint House conference committee on Capital Hill The UMB delegation included Tom Brady 74 Ed Cafferty Politics 72 Ray Dawe Politics 74 Daryl Santosuosso English 73 Bud Snyder English 73 and Dottie Winn Politics 72 Dawe was appointed Massachusetts delegation The Higher Education Act is an omnibus A complicated proposal 754 pages in length it is one of the longest ever to appear in Congress It was the target tor nearly 300 students attending the National Student Lobby Conference Wednesday through Friday of last week Students want an increase from existing levels of appropriations for student scholarships national defense loans and work study grants Students lobbied for an additional million in student aid raising education opportunity grants from the current million to approximately million The increase in federal scholarship money would be earmarked for every needy college student in the country Students also seek increased funding for national defense loans up from the current million to million had been previously been allocated for work study Students want an additional million or a total of million for the work study program alone Basic Grant Program Of special concern is the Senates Basic Grant version of the Educational Opportunity Grant section of the Act Under the Senate version the House has a similar amendment calling for less money basic grants of would be given to individual students minus family contributions The version would continue the present program of EOG grants through 1975 as a supplement to current educational opportunity funds It would provide up to in aid to students who find basic grants insufficient and it would authorize million to the states on a ma Idling basis to assit in providing funds to needy students Outraged Christine Sullivan a legislative assistant for Cong Harrington told UMB BRA Study Shows Population Unchanged At Columbia Point In a study published by the Boston Redevelopment Authority it is reported that the annual average rate of population change at the Columbia Point Housing Project is zero per cent A spokesman for the Boston Housing Authority the agency responsible for administering the housing development said that there arc now a number of vacancies through out the entire When No Figures asked to reveal the exact number of vacancies the spokesman who asked not to be identified replied that I am not allowed to reveal those figures Besides the number fluctuates and changes from week to week and sometimes from day BH A Office Move Last summer relocated the remaining tenants living at 34 Mount Street at that time a building that was partially occupied and moved some of their office operations into that building The seven story structure now houses the Authorities Complaints Division Security Engineering Department the four Area Management Supervisors and the Tenant Status Review Board Possible Move Reported The BRA also reported hat the Housing Authority was not planning to fill dwelling vacancies as they occurred This would allow the occupancy rates to the other buildings to drop and open the way so that these buildings could be used to house more BHA offices The Housing Authority would then move out of th Columbia Point Homing Project quarters they now rent on Congress Street and on to their own property Ridiculous The same BHA spokesman replied that talk of any further moves by the Authority to Columbia Point was Ridiculous were staying in downtown Community Fettling Community leaders however have expressed interest in the BHAs move last summer They hope that in the future the close proximity of the offices to the project would make the Authority and its employees more responsive to the needs of the community BHA Rebuts Again he BHA expressed its doubts about this point oi view The only effective way of improving conditions at the Columbia Point Project or ul any other project is to work through an organized tenants lobby ing To date this method lus nvt with limited success students that the liberal Democrat is behind the act She said Harrington is outraged and screaming mad that the House attached an to the Higher Education Act two months ago Busing Issue Speculation is thai the antibusing amendment strongly endorsed h lie Nixon Administration and Republicans will delay or possibly postpone the enact merit of the legislation for the Higher Education The Ho nate Conference Committe has made It known thai the antibusing amendment is delaying the report out Making Hay one of Harringtons administrative assistants said that the Nixon Administration is more concerned with making hay with the antibusing issue than he is with helping to yet the ad through the Frank said that if the act is tied up in committee it would be possible to ask tor supplemental appropriations to gut it through Congress before the session ends in May Chronic Ability to impound Nixon has achieved the chronic said the former aid to Boston Mayor Kevin White to impound money for Thai chronic ability Despite it is not likely that Nixon will make substantial cuts Frank admitted inice the act Presidents desk Frank experts that the LOBBY page 3 by Paul Tooher The University Senate agreed Thursday evening that students should receive remuneration for service to the University but refused to define just what it considered service o r li o w the remuneration should be made Instead the Senate voted to accept the general principal of student salaries and send back for further study I la question of where the funds should come from and for what positions they should be paid SAC Funds Last Spring the Senate charged an Ad Hoc Committee to investigate the question of salaries Their recommendations submitted Thursday stated that there should he remuneration for service to the that remuneration should take the form of stipends and that the funding source should be the Student Activities Trust S i inu 11 a n e o u sly Uie Student A f fa i rs Co in mi 11 ee presented a motion it had passed two weeks ago with respect to student salaries Their recommendation had the cochairman of the University Senate and the Student Activities Chairman receiving salaries of each the Student Trustee College I and II chairmen and the Chairman of the University Cultural E v e n t s and Community Action committees 5500 each T SAC proposal conditions stipulated that the salaries were to be paid only when iht positions were held by students Additionally the SAC chairman is required to attend all Senate meetings while college SAC must attend all meetings of the governing body in their respective colleges The proposal also stated that no student could receive two salaries at the same time and that each salaried student must maintain i at least six office hours a week Initially the Ad Hoc also contained a proposed salary schedule Mr Gerald Sullivan Director of Student Activities and a member of the Committee deleted that section from the Committees report in his presentation to the Senate in favor of the SACs schedule Needed Now In arguing for immediate John Holiman Chairman of the Student Activities said that this was the first in a series of proposals the to be presenting before the Senate this semester He stated he needed the motion passed at this time so that SAC could proceed with the major n i a t fo n it has undertaken especially willi respect to budgets for various university The Senate first voted to separate the question of whether students should be salaried from the rest of the proposal which dealt with the form of payment and the funding Whats Service While no the concept of students receiving salaries questions were wised as to how service lo the University was to be defined SENATE page 3 Constitution Balloting To Begin Today by Sherry Thomas Voting for I he ratification of the University Constitution the Constitution of College I and the Constitution of College II will take place this week Paper ballots will be available for students today and tomorrow in the lounge of Sawyer from 10 am 3 pm and Wednesday and Thursday in the lobby of the Main Building during the same hours Faculty and staff will vote by mail with ballots returnable hy March 29 The University Senate will announce the results of the referenda on Friday March 31 Ratification requires a majority vote of fulltime faculty or twothirds of the faculty voting in each college a majority of the student body or twothirds of the students voting in each college and the Chancellor President and the Board of Trustees The approval of the Dean of the College and the Dean of Faculties is also required for the ratification of the Constitution of College I Summaries and copies of the constitution are available in last Thursdays Constitution Supplement of The Mass the lobby of the Main building the lounge of Sawyer Building the offices of the Deans and the University Senate Office The const it ul ions had originally been slated for ratification last semester hut the governance committees of both the University Senate referenda until after all modifications and revisions on the documents had been College II likewise decided lo postpone its vote An Interview With President Wood Recapturing University Authority by Arnold Beichman Christian Look at me I left Mir a popular professor of political science and three later as a war criminal What happened in those three years The man asking thai question Dr Robert C Wood president of the University of Massachusetts i rhetorically Alter all and lie hud devoted his academic and practical expertise to solution for one of the United Slates great internal problems the urban crisis In this period as undersecretary and later secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Johnson Cabinet and earlier as of the task force on urban problems he had had little to do with foreign policy in particular Vietnam The question was Dr Woods graphic method of pointing to the o v u r w h e I in i n g and revolutionary changes which hud shaken the American academic world during the late The held everyone in administrative dike Long Not OUT It was now a few years later the end of a Friday afternoon of a long day of i j long week in President Woods i downtown Boston office nerve center of the great UMass complex which he has headed since December 1970 It was a day not yet over because there was an afterdinner speech to a of New England at the Hilton still lo come Bui it was i mo menl for peaceful reflection and introspection about what had happened m years when as Dr Wood put it Ihe kids got turned I watched it all from he said his I forefingers cupping his chin I watched this evolution of authority in the Today our job is restoration of institutional clarify and when I say oui I mean not only hut also Presidents Bok Wiesner Massachusetts Institute or Technology and Silbor Boston For Dr I he university is still primarily a place where students come lo learn yet the great questions w huh over campuses today are Leant what and for The questions are uol asked And ihc uie in I a el being asked nowhere more insistently il I1 Muss with a student bod ol faculty of I and an annual expenditure of million more than half of which in 1971 came from the Slate Legislature Touching Schedule Too destinies of this c ducal tonal f Dr an who has added to duties a leaching schedule Tins makes him quite the only university leaching in urban 1 I I a i i s o I course lie each semester between the Boston and Sharpeyed behind his spectacles smiling unfailingly us he utters his gnomic sentences Wood is determined new paths of experimentation in higher education the academic opposition may he Il IS DO Ills toughness and sense ol power p I u li i s c in p h i s i s on loi his school created Ihe campus Di luis made u deal while lie respects in house is no mote weighty Ulan the ol established groups outside the Woods i ws are WOOD page 2
